Police spokesman David McCranie said Harold Rivers is facingcharges of aggravated battery on an officer and resisting arrestwith violence.

McCranie said Rivers grabbed the 3-foot-long branch earlyThursday and raised it at Officer David Covan.

Covan unsuccessfully tried to subdue Rivers with a Taser, andRivers then repeatedly hit Covan with the branch. The officer, whosustained minor injuries in the attack, then used his baton tocontrol Rivers.

Rivers was treated for minor injuries at a hospital, then takento jail.

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